The Whitehall Syndicate: A time travel conspiracy thriller by Patel Malhar

Author:Patel, Malhar [Patel, Malhar]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-07-18T07:00:00+00:00

Kim walked out of the laboratory, a look of anguish clouding her otherwise cute face. She was on her lunch hour, which meant she finally had time to take care of the heist. It sounded daft when she thought about it like that, as if she was comparing herself to some sort of jewel thief. No, all she was doing was opening six safes and removing the contents. It was a straight forward task; at least that's what she kept repeating to herself, a simple mantra to calm her nerves.

She was beginning to sweat and the gentle smear of perspiration gave her forehead a shiny appearance. Her clothes felt stuffy and her skin was starting to redden. She began breathing deeply to try and calm herself down, and cool herself off. The air was frosty and stale.

Reaching into her pocket she pulled out the small scrap of paper from yesterday. She was on one of the floors below ground level, stood in a bare concrete corridor with the occasional breezeblock lining the walls.

Kim stood opposite a simple wooden door, which was the only thing that broke up the walls of the corridor. Her list told her that the safe should be next to the door, but she couldn't see anything.

Remembering her classic movies, she began tapping on the walls around the door and heard dull thuds. As she continued across the concrete the sound suddenly changed pitch to a hollow plunk. Running her bare fingers across it, her fine senses detected a slight discrepancy in the wall, which formed a panel. Pushing on it from side to side seemed to have no effect but she rammed her palms into it for the sake of chance, and the panel fell off to reveal a safe.

She looked down at her list of access codes and shock suddenly set in, as if she was falling backwards. She didn't know which password was which. There was a warning label on the control panel, which clearly outlined the grim consequences of entering the wrong code more than three times. Kim began to think a bit more about it, and realised that the warning might be to deter people such as herself. It was a game of bluff and double bluff and Kim was caught in the middle. There was no choice but to try any code and hope for the best.

She went down her list and tried the first one. There was a beeping sound and she grimaced, a part of her expecting to be caught straight away. Prompting for another, she tried the second code and again there was a beep. Sweat was just swimming all over her face now and she had to wipe herself down with her sleeve. She moved two down the list and tried again, holding her breath. She exhaled in frustration as the panel beeped once again.

Could she just give up? As long as she didn't try another code, nothing more could happen. Thinking about Jack and Dr. Lewis, she knew she had to be brave.

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